![]() As you import media files – photos and videos – the Auto-Analyzer processes them in order to set over 25 Smart Tags with information about them – for quality (e.g., low/high, focus/blurred, too bright/dark, shaky), and for characteristics including the number of objects, faces in the scene (one/multiple, close/long shot), motion (pan, tilt, zoom), and audio (dialog music, low/high volume). The key technology behind the scenes in Elements is the Auto-Analyzer. Auto Analyzeīut there’s more – Adobe has leveraged tags well beyond manual settings. But it’s the tagging tools that provide real leverage when working with a large media collection.īy categorizing your media, with albums, tags, and ratings, you’re just a click away from direct access to the media files that you need – from a particular event, or with certain people, or at a specific time or place. Like other media browsers, the Elements Organizer is designed to help you browse and view your photos and videos, zooming in and out on thumbnails, and searching by name. Similarly, Photoshop Elements 9 adds high-end technology including the Spot Healing Brush to repair photos, Layer Masks, PhotoMerge Style Match to adjust photos according to the characteristics of another, and enhanced Photomerge Panorama that fills in the edges of panoramas using the amazing content-aware fill from Photoshop CS5.īut, all this technology is useless if you can’t find your media files. ![]() ![]() The Elements Organizer also adds other new sharing options including Online Albums with animated templates (based on Flash) and uploading directly to Facebook. It also adds additional sophisticated effects, including an animated outlined cartoon look and audio cleaning for background noise, volume and clarity. But these are not simple interfaces with limited features – they are based on Adobe’s corresponding professional tools, and offer sophisticated capabilities including keyframed effects with keyed tracks for videos and layer masks for photos.īesides moving fully to Mac OS, Premiere Elements 9 adds new technology from Premiere Pro, including optimized SD and HD editing including AVCHD, import from DSLR still cameras and compact HD cameras including Flip camcorders, and exporting productions as a Web DVD to post online, complete with scene index and chapter menus. Yes, they have accessible tab-based interfaces (e.g., Organize, Edit, Disc Menus, Share), with tool tips and the Inspiration Browser with how-to tutorials. Premiere Elements for video editing and Photoshop Elements for photo editing are not tools for casual consumers. Both Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements are available individually with the Elements Organizer for $100 list ($80 with rebate), or bundled together for $150 ($120 with rebate).Īdobe clearly believes that consumers need the headroom to step up to more sophisticated projects. The new Elements 9 further emphasizes this focus, as all three components are now equally available on Macintosh as well as on Windows. But the real power of Adobe’s approach with Elements comes when you make the investment to organize and tag your materials (with automated help) – and then can leverage that information for automated editing and enhancement. The Elements Organizer is a handy stand-alone tool in its own right for getting started with editing – you can use it directly to apply simple edits, create slideshows, templated movies and DVDs, and then share online and to mobile devices. But more and more, the focus of the Elements product line is on the separate Elements Organizer tool that is included with both products, to help you catalog and tag and organize your photos and videos. Elements is targeted to “enthusiasts,” the family memory keepers who are serious about organizing and preserving their library of media files, and want the headroom in their editing tools to be able to make sophisticated-looking productions. But for Adobe, video (and photo) editing is not for novice consumers. What is video editing for consumers? Is it focused on quick trims, or should it offer more sophisticated timelines and layered effects? Is it about easy one-click sharing of cell phone videos online and to portable devices, or deeper handling of HD formats from AVCHD to Blu-ray?Īdobe does all of the above with its latest release of Premiere Elements 9, along with the companion Photoshop Elements 9.
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